The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2986372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter W Culicover (0009-0006-9255-7560), C L Baker (0000-0003-2552-7821), John J Mccarthy (0000-0002-6339-0718) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115 |
| Publication date | 1984-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/414192 |
| OpenAlex | W1974881914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 134 |
This collection of articles and associated discussion papers focuses on a problem that has attracted increasing attention from linguists and psychologists throughout the world during the past several years. Reduced to essentials, the problem is that of discovering the character of the mental capacities that make it possible for human beings to attain knowledge of their language on the basis of fragmentary and haphazard early linguistic experience. A fundamental assumption running through all of these contributions is that people possess strong innate predispositions that are critical for success in this task
Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Foundations of language
The acquisition of event nominals and light verb constructions
Early Understanding of Subject and Object Wh‐Questions
Year‐Old Children Use Animacy and Syntax to Learn a New Noun
The logical problem of second language acquisition of argument structure
Sympathy and phonological opacity
Visibility, complement selection and the case requirement of CP
Reframing linguistic bootstrapping as joint inference using visually-grounded grammar induction models
Modularity and the Facilitation Effect
Form and function in syntactic theory
Acknowledging the Gap While Bridging It
Syntactic distinctions in child language
The company that words keep
Induction and the acquisition of English auxiliaries
Rules and construction effects in learning the argument structure of verbs
A little goes a long way
Count/mass category acquisition
Language, procedures, and the non-perceptual origin of number word meanings
On the early learning of formal grammatical systems
Clarifying the logical problem of language acquisition
Morphological alternations at the intonational phrase edge
Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments
From lexical to functional categories
Interaction between two determiner systems
Learning What NOT to Say
Universal Grammar and the Interpretation of Reflexives in a Second Language
The Nonunity of VP-Preposing
The role of indirect positive evidence in syntactic acquisition
The End Result(ative)
Learning Animacy Hierarchy Effects in Sesotho Double Object Applicatives
Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection
The architecture of grammar and the division of labor in exponence
Parts and wholes
Constructions at Work
The Rise and Fall of Constructions and the History of English Do -Support
Learning New Words
The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence
Analogy in grammar
Language Development
Extraposition
Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
The Bilingual Child
Generalisation of regular and irregular morphological patterns
Acquiring and processing verb argument structure
Starting at the end
Parsing Effects in Second Language Sentence Processing
Parameters and Learnability in Binding Theory
Frequent frames as a cue for grammatical categories in child directed speech
The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings
Bayesian Fundamentalism or Enlightenment? On the explanatory status and theoretical contributions of Bayesian models of cognition
Human simulations of vocabulary learning
The language bioprogram hypothesis
The survival of object-verb order in Middle English
Poverty of the Stimulus Without Tears
The acquisition of linking theories
Asymmetries in encoding event roles
A corpus-based analysis of relative clause extraposition in Persian
Grammar acquisition and grammar choice in the variationist model
Subject/object asymmetries in the grammar of bilingual and monolingual Spanish speakers
Multiple subcategorization and the ?-criterion
Infinitives in a for-to dialect
Case and NP licensing
Case and grammatical functions
Dative Sickness? in germanic
Distributionally restricted items
On nominal islands and LF extraction in Chinese
Raising in Irish and the Projection Principle
Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors
When grammar wins over sense
Analytic, synthetic, abstracting, and word-class-defining aspects of verbal mother-child interactions
The reductionist ideal in cognitive psychology
Gold's Theorem and Cognitive Science
Modern Spanish spurious se
The Maturation of Grammatical Principles
Eliminating Rightward Movement
The Influence of Linguistic Theories on Language Acquisition Research
Interference and Overgeneralization in Second Language Learning
Nonnative Speakers Do Not Take Competing Alternative Expressions Into Account the Way Native Speakers Do
Investigating 'Full Transfer'
More learnable than thou? Testing metrical phonology representations with childdirected speech
Syntax Constrains the Acquisition of Verb Meaning
Learning English Bilingually
Linguistics
The rightward movement of complements and adjuncts in the Old English of Beowulf
Judgment evidence for statistical preemption
Semantics-syntax correspondences in second language acquisition
A reply to some critics
Language universals and linguistic argumentation
Catalan Vowel Epenthesis as Evidence for the Free Ride Approach to Morphophonemic Learning
On the analysis and implications of Maori verb alternations
What is a language made out of
The psychological reality of children's grammars and its relation to grammatical theory
Phrase structure and directionality in Irish
Diachronic syntax and learnability
The demise of the Old English impersonal construction
Reconsidering the history of like
Tracking the origins of transformational generative grammar
Reduced auxiliaries in early child language
Government and code-mixing
Interplay of function morphemes and prosody in early language
| Unique citing works | 134 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,98 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2025 (45) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 103 |